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GLOBAL NEWS Captain Ponijiasi and four other soldiers | supposedly haunted the old Surrency house | east of the city. were convicted in Suva on November 22 of | owned by the family for whom the town is « If that was not enough, just a couple of abduction and grievous bodily harm but | named during the 1870s and 1880s.” nights ago, we experienced a mild earth given 12 months sentences suspended for Tillman says inhabitants of the house | tremor here in southern Queensland. They 15 months and a fine of F$340 each. reported dishes flying off shelves, logs | are getting closer. The light sentences drew public criticism | jumping off the fire and bricks coming INCREASED SOLAR at the time. through the walls. The “ghost” became so GEOLOGICAL MYSTERY famous that people rode the train from FLARES UPSETS EARTH. Atlanta just to see the “haunted” house, LIES DEEP BELOW STATE | which burned down at the turn of the cen- The earth has been bombarbed with a tury. significantly increased amount of solar Deep, very deep, in the heart of South flare radiation. Maybe this and the earth- Georgia, miles beneath the tiny crossroads BABY SWEPT OUT quakes are related? There are ‘experts’ who town of Surrency, lies a mysterious, newly TO SEA SAVED BY will say this is the case. discovered geologic formation never Several large eruptions on the Sun's sur- detected anywhere else in the world. A DOLPHIN face have disrupted communications sys- Geologists say the “Surrency Bright tems, damaged electrical power equipment Spot,” nine miles beneath South Georgia’s Amid the damage and chaos caused by | in the USA, and generated a potentially piney woods, may be an ancient reservoir | the cyclones in Bangladesh, there emerged | corrosive electical current in a pipeline in of water or other fluid formed more than | at least one positive story. central Australia. 200 million years ago by the collision of A baby swept 30km out to sea was res- Charged particles take slightly more than North Africa and North America. cued by a dolphin, according to a statement | a day to reach the Earth, where they severe- “It’s big, and we’ve never seen anything | made by State Environment Minister | ly disrupt the magnetic field. like it before,” says Dr. Larry Brown, an | Abdul-lah al-Norman. The baby was res- (Source: Sydney Morning Herald, March associate professor of geological sciences | cued from the dolphin's mouth near | 28th, 1991) at Cornell University, who was part of a | Chokoria and is recovering in hospital. scientific team that discovered the forma- (Source: Sun Herald, 12 May, 1991) TRAFFIC CAMERAS = tion. Brown, a director of the Cornell-based EARTHQUAKES ON THE SPRUNG SPYING Consortium for Continental Reflective INCREASE AGAIN! Profiling (COCORP), which is developing a detailed picture of the Earth’s mantle, Over 52,000 people died as a result of Last October we learned that the Traffic says the formation - “bright” only in terms | earthquakes last year, according to | Cameras in Macquarie St., Sydney, were of the way it reflects sound waves - is about | researchers, more than any year since 1976. | caught filming the Aboriginal protests out- two miles in diameter and appears to be | That is more people in just 1 year, than | side NSW Parliament House. shaped like a contact lens. were killed for the entire decade of the Now, we learn that the hidden camera If it is a subterranean pool of water or | 1980s in earthquakes. operators must be getting bored, this time other fluid, it could force physicists to 68 significant earthquakes occurred in | the cameras in Clarence St., were caught revise models of the Earth’s crust. Until | the world last year, which is 8 more than | filming the people at the swimming pool now many of them felt the heat and pres- | the annual average for the 1980s. and on the balconies of the adjoining York sure at those depths were too great for flu- A significant earthquake is defined by | Apartments. ids to exist. the US Geological Survey as having a mag- Well, we assume they were bored, - Nine miles down, temperatures are near- | nitude of at least 6.5 on the Richter scale, | maybe they were just doing their job? ly 500 degrees Fahrenheit and pressures are | or a powerful tremor that causes casualties (Source: Syd Morn. Herald 5th April great enough to flatten the sturdiest truck | or heavy damage. 1991, "Column 8") like a pancake. The 7.7 quake that struck western Iran “We really don’t have a good idea what | last June killed more than 50,000 people. AUSTRALIA - THE the object the formation is composed of,” And that's not all! says Brown. “Tf it is water, it would upset a ¢ The Daily Telegraph Mirror of 6th May CORRUPT COUNTRY? lot of scientific theories, and it would cause | this year reported a "swarm" of earth- us to rethink our ideas about the role of | quakes in central Victoria. 70 earthquakes "If you had asked me a few weeks ago to water in forming the Earth’s mantle.” were recorded over just a few days, the | name a country where corruption was ram- Surrency Mayor Stanford Tillman, first | largest measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale. | pant in the nation's most powerful finance informed of the unique geologic feature * The Sun Herald (30th June 1991) | institutions; where key witnesses before last week, has his own theory. reports that Los Angeles had its strongest | vital national inquiries were intimidated “Tt might have something to do with | earthquake in 20 years, measuring 6.0 on | before they appeared; and principal wit- Surrency’s ghost,” he says. “If this town is | the Richter scale. Lucky for the city that | nesses and their evidence were publicly known for anything, it’s for the ghost that | the epicentre of the quake was 70km north | denigrated by the head of the inquiry after A DOLPHIN AGAIN! INCREASE NEXUS -7 INCREASED SOLAR FLARES UPSETS EARTH. BABY SWEPT OUT TO SEA SAVED BY TRAFFIC CAMERAS - SPRUNG SPYING AUSTRALIA - THE CORRUPT COUNTRY? JULY/AUGUST 1991 + YEAR BOOK